@avclub-f7f8eb12e0f61a9321597157c0d61791:disqus I don't really know enough about Black Beauty or Anna Sewell to comment, but yeah, a lot of literary theory of that sort can tend to disappear up its own discourse. If there was evidence that Sewell took an interest in 'fallen women' - society membership, diaries or…

I think the idea is that the horses' treatment at the hands of various owners throughout the novel is an allegory for prostitution, in particular, and the place of women in British society in general - the abuse, violent discipline and the working-to-death.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must team up with a spunky young woman to fight crime.

I heard a similar theory about Black Beauty. Couldn't look a horse in the eye for months.

BOOBS, GLORIOUS BOOBS.

Those agents are a dedicated elite. If Nugent starts flinging, every one of them would gladly take a shit for the President.

Nugent may not have any guns tonight, but he does have a history of using his own feces as a form of political protest. I'll be watching.

Taking this as an indirect reference to his own Robin Hood accent, Russell Crowe walks out of the interview muttering about 'dead ears'.

Bugger America, Fancy These Awards?

He has some competition from…The Bishop! http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Off topic, but I would like to take this opportunity to launch the Jeremy Irons For Pope campaign - A Horny Pope For Horny Times.

How about bringing back the standard Shakespearean soliloquy, just to mess with people? It's basically what these talking heads and freezing time devices are anyway, it's one of the only great things about the new House of Cards, and I for one would love to see Walter White stepping away from the action and launching…

How DARE you shove your FACTS right into my EMOTIONAL REACTION!

Canned laughter, whooping.

Predictions: Once the minute-by-minute viewer analysis is in, NBC will retool the show so that it takes place entirely in Abed's happy place, complete with laugh track and studio audience.

I've finished the Netflix series, and (without spoilers), while I liked Spacey in it, I still have to give top prize to the BBC one. The original was propulsive pulp with some fun Shakespearean overtones and a delightfully wicked villain - this version is just a bit too sterile, ponderous and self-serious.

Courtney Love. She'll appear in the fantasy sequences fluttering about like the Green Fairy in Moulin Rouge.

After the success of Argo, the producers have insisted that the climax be a car chase to Tempelhof Airport as Iggy tries to keep his Lust For Life master recordings away from the Stasi.

In Nielsen households, TV watches you.

And in 2015, marvel at his raw sexuality in the one-man film 'Bate Night.